The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-04-29

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Boston Globe.
A PIONEER GHOST.
1shnd for years been favorite idea
with Roswell Rolla, as his boyhood
name was) to restore an early u pio-
sneer sngar camp. A considerable bit
of the primitive wood had been pre-
asrved. quite enough to hide the boil
5ingsworks. The kettles were hung by
beecl, t,.umnels, on q lug polc--there
rsthe store, trough, the sap yoke
md buckets, the small, rather too
neat cabin. Right about headquar-
ters were the az made sap troughs-all
as in the primitive times.
The day--the last Of two or three
successive sun bright days, indicating
the wane Of the sugar season, and the
5kindling Of the year-had been all
that d single day could well be.
It was past, the girls were gone, and
night was making its approach seen
and felt III the ancient wood, helping
the cherished illusions the years turn
ed back, the grand forest restored, the
silent group in the deepening twilight
we're boys again, in the depth OF the
woods. The girls wers gone, 1t had
bee,, d great day for them, old glrls,
/ yet for the day. girls. They have ram
hled little heavy-footed and slow,
through the woods, where the earlier
lowers OF the spring began to show
tl,emselyes--the liyerworts, blood
roots. the spray Hike ground nuts, and
many bndded spring beauty. In the
favored place a few real leeks stabbed
4sips There had been o butterfly
aeen Hopping among the trees, lighting
on the asp sprouts, and many honey
bees, robins and blue birds were there,
chickadees, blue jays and the nut
hatch winter residents these last; all
these had been noted talked over
and the girls wepe gone. Ann, her
younger sister Helen, and one OF the
Dams went with them. So Elizabeth
and Minerva went with Elvira for the
night. Elderly girls--all called such
for the time.
The boys, Roosevelt, Monroe, anoth.
er Dan, Capt. John, OF the hundred
day con1!iapy, William and Theo-
these last caine down from Michigan;
stood rather pensivety about the rude
furHaEu nnd boifing copper kettles,
sconyelsing in subdued voices, jim the
perceptible twilight under the primi-
tive trees. The fire was growing con-
'spicnous, and its sparks visible. A
colony 0f frogs from the swals below
were making themselves heard. among
which were the piercing notes OF a few
ihylodes, which usually precede the
cronkers. aWe shan / maksany more
good sugar" said Monroe, inhis chest
tones.
These are the fret OF them" said
Dan. They Mill be frozen up three
tiiles. No good sugar after the sec.
ond is the old rule.
Then followed some discussion OF
the selations OF frogs to the condi-
tions favorable to sugar making. The
conclusion was that they only indi-
Cated the advance OF the season.
There was an old time incident ot
the neighborhood, which though now
forgot ten, OCCURRED since tho johnson
boys went to Michigan, and which K,
had promised to tell them OF after the
girls left, and they now claimed O. per-
forn1ance.
RI GU know ! can't tell a story, and
this is not a story and t:ss no come
out of any sort" was his hesitating
preliminary. He was no great talkep
at the best. "That is the rule now, =
said Dan, who remained. "a man be-
gins anywhere in the current OF every.
day life, takes q commonplace person
or two and sticks to them fes o year
or SO, tells usually what they don't do
and the reason or no reason why, and
drops them. As yours is all about a
ghost
"a ghost that is not a ghost, /" put
in the ,-roposed narrator.
'.Who haunted an old barn thirty
by forty
i ..Or didn't" interjected Monroe.
stOr didn't accepted Dan, sit will
run il the line Of the present school
exactly.
There Was o pause Of a moment,
when Roswell, his back to the fire,
thlew his head tip suddenly sideways
a gay OF his-and began:
IT wAs about this time OF year,
nnd just such o spell OF weather as
this Anscoinb had acted q little
queerly oil winter--longer. It came
on so slowly, with such a steady down
grade that those who saw him every
day, MS we did, hardly observed II,
Ii twas queer. He was nm unusually in,
tellieent Man. He was bright In the
morning, and grewdull. aiittle cloudy,
perhaps, toward pight, and wasn't
much seen after dark, when he had a
way Oflingering about the lower barn
4 where his cows md young cattle wers
kept. He took entire charge Of these,
had them all sEell broke; every COW,
;iieifer and steer, down TO the calves
knew its name, and when tbe
stable door was opened they
& kltt SIS ui6O Il Ill uk0 q company VI
sirisled soldiers. He had q way
of opening the door, and getting uI
l on to tj,s big BEAM" Ia large square
timber kssown by that name) where
! lie con!1 see their heads. and called
s,acia by name, and he remained there
tAtking 70 them. until somebody came
/ and called him in to supper. II you
happened there nny time about dusk,
yol were sisre to see him from his
psrch, calling out to them in his pecul-
I In voice, found him there once OF
EsScg I've always been sorry | did
up there. doubled oyer by q apur.
gisse posk his head canted down on one
neatAex the little old fragment
1ffsfraw Ilat sls wore it all that win
j ter about tie barn. was sorry
because II helped out the shape
yxf the appnrition later Well,
an night the night he did
not not u = IN supper was ready. and
x,lsesof ,l,js fiss sgpaller girls was sent to
5sss, 5x.ssiIi linn It ~ fifteen rods or SO
d and just wing twilight,
~ q = - n q a s,yssrfr he'd thf